WO1993015470A1 - Instrument a bande large servant a la mesure non destructive de proprietes de materiaux - Google Patents

Instrument a bande large servant a la mesure non destructive de proprietes de materiaux Download PDF

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WO1993015470A1
WO1993015470A1 PCT/US1993/000704 US9300704W WO9315470A1 WO 1993015470 A1 WO1993015470 A1 WO 1993015470A1 US 9300704 W US9300704 W US 9300704W WO 9315470 A1 WO9315470 A1 WO 9315470A1
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  • This invention relates to instruments, and more particularly to instruments that automatically and nondestructively measure the properties of materials by detecting electromagnetic radiation, and methods of using these instruments.
  • Petroleum refining is similarly dependent on many property measurements, including heating value, hydrogen to carbon ratio, water content and others. Prospecting often requires measurements of porosity of drilling cores, kerogen content, water, and others. Clearly, the reliance of material property measurements in industry is extensive and profoundly important.
  • Material properties are traditionally measured by some form of invasive or destructive technique (such as weight loss or gain, combustion, combination with reagents, and the like) but can often be measured by means of electromagnetic radiation absorbed or emitted by the material. All of the critical measurements listed in the previous paragraph can be made by means of some form of electromagnetic radiation. Electromagnetic radiation measurements have the advantage that they are generally nondestructive to the sample and can be performed without making direct contact with it, other than any contact with the sample container necessary to position the sample under the appropriate sensors. The electromagnetic spectrum spans many orders of magnitude in wavelength.
  • Microwaves and radio waves have the longest wavelengths (millimeters to meters in wavelength), followed by infrared (micrometers), visible light (parts of a micrometer), ultraviolet (nanometers), x-rays and gamma rays (sub-nanometers).
  • Each wavelength band of the electromagnetic spectrum can be used to measure properties of materials. For example, structural and quantitative analytical determinations of material properties may be obtained.
  • Table 1 shows the chemical information provided by the different principal regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • Radio waves can interact with the nuclei of the material in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), revealing molecular mobility and isotopic content.
  • Microwaves can be selectively absorbed or phase shifted by vater and other dielectrics.
  • Infrared can be selectively absorbed by specific molecular structures. Visible light and ultraviolet are absorbed or reflected by specific atomic and molecular species in the material.
  • X-rays and gamma rays reveal atomic and isotopic composition. Any of these wavelength bands may further be used for imaging of the sample material.
  • Instruments that detect electromagnetic radiation may be categorized according to the type of interaction between the sample material and electromagnetic radiation.
  • infrared absorption measurements for example, the electromagnetic radiation that passes through the sample and is detected, the remainder being absorbed or scattered.
  • color determinations visible light is reflected from the sample in certain wavelength regions and is detected.
  • NMR nuclear magnetic resonance
  • radio signals are absorbed resonantly by precessing nuclei in a magnetic field as the nuclei change their spin direction. Radio signals are subsequently emitted by the nuclei as they return to their initial orientation.
  • Emission measurements such as radiative capture of neutrons to produce characteristic gamma rays, involve the production of detectable electromagnetic radiation following a non-electro ⁇ agnetic stimulus.
  • Prior art instruments that measure material properties by detecting electromagnetic radiation have concentrated on one or a few wavelength bands and generally rely on one type of measurement. For example, infrared absorption or reflectance measurements are related to only a subset of the important material properties, while visible and ultraviolet spectrometers measure another set, and x-ray and gamma detectors yet another set of material properties, each sensing and detecting technique being restricted to specific wavelength limits.
  • Such separate measurement processes are inefficient for inhomogeneous materials because multiple separate samples must normally be obtained for each instrument to create a representative data set.
  • the fusion of data from diverse measurement techniques can provide additional information about the material not measured but inferred from the combination of measurements, involving conservation lavs and other principles.
  • data fusion is generally labor intensive, since the instruments providing measurements by different modalities are usually difficult to adapt to each other.
  • the data, and the electronic or physical forms of the data, are often incompatible, requiring manual translation and analysis.
  • coal properties of interest to many users are the moisture content, hydrogen content not bound in water, heating value, and sulfur in various forms.
  • the hydrocarbon molecular forms and some sulfur compounds can be measured by infrared ⁇ pectroscopy, the interstitial water can be seen with microwaves, and other compounds can be detected by visible and ultraviolet spectroscopy. These tests are generally performed using separate instruments, and combined to determine the coal properties.
  • a new instrument has been designed which obtains data on a single sample using multiple portions of the electromagnetic spectrum, such as radio frequency, microwave, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-ray, and gamma ray measurements.
  • the desired material property values are then determined by analysis of the data from all the sensors together, using data-fusion analysis methods.
  • an instrument vhich measures material properties using a plurality of measurement means, spanning a vide range of the electromagnetic spectrum, and then merges the resulting diverse data to characterize the material properties better than could be accomplished with each measurement means alone.
  • the instrument can perform these tests nondestructively and rapidly, using a single sample of the material.
  • An advantage of the invention is that it provides material property measurements which could not be obtained previously, or could be obtained only by performing multiple separate measurements, and then combining the data from those measurements, each subject to an error band which cumulatively degrades the accuracy of the measurements.
  • large numbers of measurements and large numbers of samples are used to provide a statistically based improvement in the accuracy of the measured material properties.
  • the invention performs its multiple measurements automatically on a single sample,
  • the invention allovs measurement of such material properties indirectly by performing measurements vhich are more easily made, and then applying data-fusion techniques to derive the desired quantities.
  • the resultant uncertainties in the final quantities are substantially lover than achievable through direct measurement alone.
  • Each vavelength band of the electromagnetic spectrum employed in the inventive instrument is measured by a single sensor. Examples of sensor types are given in Table 2. Each sensor is monitored, and its data accumulated, by a dedicated controller. Some analysis, such as signal averaging or scaling, may be performed by the dedicated controller. The data from each sensor is then sent to a central data processor, vhere analysis algorithms are used to deduce material properties of interest from the sensor data.
  • Microvave generation, transmission, absorption, and phase detectors Infrared, visible, and ultraviolet spectrometers X-ray and gamma ray emitters and detectors. Each- sensor measures electromagnetic radiation in its interactions with the material. The sensors are nondestructive and non-contacting; hence the sample is available for further uses after analysis by the invented instrument. Each sensor may detect radiation that is emitted by the sample folloving electromagnetic or non-electromagnetic stimuli. They may detect electromagnetic radiation that has passed through or scattered from the sample. They may detect radiation resonantly interacting vith the sample.
  • the measurement may include intensity measurements, such as in line attenuation measurements; or vavelength measurements, as in visible light spectroscopy; or image information, as in x-ray tomography; or other parameters of the electromagnetic radiation, as in free induction decay rates in NMR. (Measurements of the vavelength, vave number, frequency, and energy of electromagnetic radiation are all equivalent, and are included in the term "vavelength measurements" as used herein.)
  • intensity measurements such as in line attenuation measurements; or vavelength measurements, as in visible light spectroscopy; or image information, as in x-ray tomography; or other parameters of the electromagnetic radiation, as in free induction decay rates in NMR.
  • the analysis algorithms employed for data fusion, and to derive the material properties depend on the particular sensors incorporated in the instrument, and on vhich material properties are desired.
  • the central computer thus includes sufficient computing pover and storage that it can process the data from the various sensors, calculating therefrom the material properties needed for the application.
  • Data from individual sensors may be analyzed and combined by any means that produces a measure of the parameters of interest in the sample material.
  • data provided by other measurement means may be used in the analysis.
  • the sample veight may be measured by an automatic veighing station incorporated in the apparatus and the veight data transferred to the data processor. Such measurements could alternatively be measured separately and provided as input in the analysis.
  • a poverful method to fuse data from different measurement means, and derive values for the material properties is to form a mathematical matrix correlating the desired parameters to the measured quantities.
  • the desired parameters can be determined by solving the matrix (by diagonalization, for example) so long as the number of different types of measurements are sufficient to match the number of unknovns in the material properties to be determined from the sensor data.
  • the accuracy of the sensors and the adequacy of the analysis methods ar checked by means of calibration samples vhich have been specially prepared vith knovn constituents and known material properties. Parameters for such analysis coefficients may be determined vith these calibration samples.
  • An advantage of the instrument is that it is comprised of nondestructive, noncontacting sensors, so that the sample may be used in further tests after the measurements are performed.
  • Another advantage of the method presented is that it allovs data from disparate sensors to be combined efficiently, thus the material properties can be determined more quickly and more accurately than fithout the data fusion.
  • the invention provides material property measurements quickly and automatically, using a single sample of test material, and it further incorporates data fusion to enable information about the material to be derived by correlation of disparate sensor data, vith minimal human intervention required.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an instrument according to the present invention, adapted to the application of measuring properties of coal on a conveyor belt.
  • Figure 2 is a chart shoving a variety of sensor applications across the electromagnetic spectrum and across a vide range of size scales.
  • Figure 3 is a symbolic description of data fusion for moisture determination.
  • Figure 4 is an alternative embodiment of the invention vherein multiple sensors detect electromagnetic radiation simultaneously.
  • the primary elements of an instrument are the sensor assembly 10 and the data processor 12, vhich cooperate to analyze the material properties of the material samples 14.
  • the samples 14 are carried on a conveyor means, vhich in this embodiment is a conveyor belt 16 driven by pulleys 18.
  • vhich in this embodiment is a conveyor belt 16 driven by pulleys 18.
  • the sensor assembly 10 are a plurality of electromagnetic radiation sensors 20, each being connected electrically to a controller 22 vhich controls the operation of the sensor 20 to vhich it is attached.
  • a controller 22 may also perform data processing on the data generated by that sensor 20 to vhich it is attached.
  • Each controller 22 is connected electrically to the data processor 12.
  • Information on the material properties of the samples 14 is sent out from the processing means 12 using a communication means 26, vhich may also carry instructions and additional data back into the processor 12 from a human operator or from other equipment.
  • Each sensor 20 consists of apparatus to stimulate electromagnetic radiation from the samples 14, in a selected vavelength band of the electromagnetic spectrum, and to detect that radiation.
  • the sensors 20 detect electromagnetic radiation vhich spans a vide rang of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • Figure 2 shovs the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio vaves at the lov frequency end, to gamma rays at the high frequenc end, indicating in vhich regions the various sensor technologies are usually employed.
  • the open and solid rectangles in Figure 2 indicate vavelength regions sensed by the tvo embodiments described henceforth.
  • Each controller 22 is an electronic device vhich is electrically connected to at least one sensor 20 and vhich sends one or more electrical signals to the sensor 20 to affect the operation of the sensor 20.
  • data from the sensor 20 preferably passes to the attached controlle 22 for temporary storage, and initial data processing may be performed by the controller 22.
  • each controller 22 is a microprocessor.
  • the data processor 12 is a device vith sufficient data processing and communication capabilities that it acts as an interface betveen the rav data and the user.
  • the processor means in the embodiment of Figure 1 is a compute vhich includes one digital I/O (input/output) communication port connected to each controller means 22, and one I/O port to provide processed results to th user through the connection means 26.
  • the connection means 24 are any means for conveying information betveen each controller 22 and the data processor 12.
  • the connection means 24 is a multiconductor ribbon cable carrying information as a parallel-type digital communication line.
  • the communication means 26 is any means for conveying information betveen the data processor 12 and the user.
  • the communication means 26 is a fiber ⁇ optic or other suitable communication line carrying information in serial digital form.
  • the sensor assembly 10 may be comprised of a plurality of separate chassis vhich are not mechanically connected to each other and vhich each contain one or more of the sensor means 20.
  • the conveyor means is any means for spatially positioning the samples 14 relative to the sensor assembly 10 so as to allov each of the sensors 20 to stimulate and detect electromagnetic radiation from the samples 14.
  • the conveyor means is a flexible conveyor belt 16 upon vhich samples 14 have been placed, and vhich is driven by a motor (not shovn) so as to move the samples 14 past the sensors 20.
  • the motor is controlled so as to stop for a preset time interval vhen each sample 14 is aligned vith each sensor 20.
  • the motor could drive the belt 16 sufficiently slovly that each sensor 20 receives a sufficient amount of electromagnetic radiation, to allov the material properties to be determined therefrom.
  • the embodiment of Figure 1 is adapted to the application of measuring the material properties of coal, including the heating value, moisture, sulfur content, and ash content.
  • the sensors 20 in the embodiment of Figure 1 are: an infrared spectrometer, a microvave phase-shift monitor, and a nuclear gamma ray spectrometer.
  • the vavelength bands detected by these sensors 20 are indicated by the open rectangles in Figure 2. None of these sensors 20 can measure all of the needed material properties by itself, but in combination the data from all the sensors 20, vhen analyzed by the processor 12, the desired material properties may be found.
  • Each sensor 20 provides information about the coal by detecting one band of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • the microvave detector measures the density and the free moisture content in the sample 14 by detecting the amplitude and phase shift of microvaves passing through the sample.
  • the infrared spectrometer measures the ratio of C-H to O-H bonds by determining ratios of spectral lines.
  • the nuclear gamma ray detector determines the relative abundances of hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and other elements by observing radiative capture gammas and nuclear de-excitation gammas folloving neutron exposure of the sample 14.
  • sensors span the vavelength range of 10 meters for microvaves (indicated by the open box number 30 in Figure 2), 10 meters for the infrared (open box 32), to 10 " t meters for the gamma rays (open box 34) .
  • Instruments capable of detecting microvaves, infrared, and gamma rays separately are available commercially. These instruments typically are provided vith controllers included, or are easily attached to suitable microprocessor-based controllers. Also, the other elements used in the data fusion part of the invention - data processors, communication links, and conveyor means - are commercially available. These elements are knovn to those skilled in the art of nondestructive sensing, and therefore these elements vill not be described in detail here.
  • the data from the sensors 20 are combined by the data processor 12 to calculate the desired material properties.
  • the properties of materials can be described by a set of overlapping simultaneous equations in vhich the variables are the constituents of the material.
  • the desired parameters are related to the constituents of the coal, including the hydrogen content, the bound and free water, elemental carbon, and other elemental constituents.
  • the parameters measured by the sensors 20 may also be described using the same set of variables, in a different set of equations.
  • a mathematical matrix is often useful in analyzing data of this type.
  • a matrix can be formed as follovs: The columns correspond to the material constituents or other primitive quantities vhich are common to the material property equations and the measured parameter equations.
  • the rovs of the matrix correspond to the measured parameters observed by the sensors 20.
  • the elements of the matrix are coefficients representing the relative abundances of the constituent chemical species.
  • the matrix can then be solved to obtain values for the material constituents in terms of the measured quantities, and the desired material properties can then be calculated from the constituents.
  • the embodiment of Figure 1 provides measurements from vhich the elemental constituents carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and other chemical elements may be determined.
  • the desired material properties such as the heating value and moisture content, may be found from these constituents.
  • the heating value of coal is a direct measure of its chemical energy and is a parameter for determining its value as a fuel. As the rank of coal increases, the ratio of fixed carbon to moisture and the heating value both increase. The amount of fixed carbon establishes rank, but heating value also depends on moisture and other chemical elements.
  • Table 3 shovs a matrix formed according to this procedure. Each column corresponds to an atomic constituent, each rov corresponds to the data from one of the sensors, and the matrix elements are the coefficients relating them.
  • the symbols C, H, S, 0, and Z represent carbon, hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and other elements in the material.
  • the symbol M represents the moisture measurement from the microvave sensor.
  • the symbol CH/CO represents the ratio of C-H bonds to C-0 bonds from the infrared data.
  • the remaining elemental symbols on the left side represent elemental abundance measurements derived from the gamma ray data.
  • HHV is related to the elemental quantities by the folloving formula:
  • HHV ⁇ (C) + 0(H) + T(2S-0)
  • the Greek letters represent coefficients determined by calculation or calibration, and the capital letters represent elemental constituents.
  • the other material properties to be determined may be found in a similar fashion, so long as all of the primitives or constituents comprising the equations for the material properties are determined by the matrix of measured parameters.
  • the matrix (Table 3) is solved (for example by Gaussian elimination) and the resultant elements are contained in the equations that relate them to the material parameters.
  • the uncertainty in the final result may be substantially reduced by invoking conservation lavs relating tvo or more experimental measurements derived from independent means.
  • the veight of the sample may be deduced from the measured quantities and compared to the actual veight as a check of the procedure.
  • the.veight may be found from the folloving formula:
  • Weight ⁇ (C) + (H) + ⁇ (0) + *(S) + ⁇ (Z)
  • Material properties may be determined from individual sensor data using calibration constants.
  • the data from multiple sensors may be combined using data fusion, vhich generally results in lover uncertainties in the derived quantities than clipd be possible using the data from individual sensors alone.
  • the moisture in coal may be calculated from infrared data alone, or the moisture may be derived by combining the infrared data vith the gamma ray sensor measurements.
  • the infrared data measures spectral lines corresponding to various molecular structures such as hydrogen-oxygen bonds (H-0) and hydrogen-carbon bonds (H-C). By taking ratios of the amplitudes of these lines, the moisture can be estimated using the folloving equation:
  • Moisture(infrared) N(H-0)/(N(H-0)+N(H-C) ) * ft
  • N(H-O) is the relative number of hydrogen-oxygen bonds detected
  • N(H-C) is the relative number of hydrogen-carbon bonds detected
  • ft is an average value of the ratio of moisture to the ratio shovn. The constant ft is assumed to be derived by measuring the moisture in many similar coals.
  • the uncertainty in the moisture determination can be reduced by combining the data from the gamma ray sensor vith that from the infrared sensor.
  • the gamma ray sensor measures, among other things, the total number of hydrogen atoms in the sample, N(H). Since essentially all of the hydrogen is attached to oxygen or to carbon atoms, a conservation lav for hydrogen in the sample can be stated as follovs:
  • Moisture(infrared+gamma) N(H-0)/(N(H-0) + N(H-C)) * N(H)/2
  • Moisture(infrared+gamma) stands for the moisture as determined by the infrared and gamma ray data combined, and the factor of 2 accounts for the fact that two hydrogen atoms are in each water molecule.
  • Figure 3 displays these calculations symbolically.
  • the moisture measurement using infrared data alone is shown as the curve 42, vith a broad uncertainty due to the uncertainty in the average calibration value, ft.
  • the total hydrogen measurement is shovn symbolically as the curve 44, vhich has low uncertainty.
  • the correlation between the moisture and the total hydrogen is illustrated by the contour plot 46. Dotted lines 48 shov the observed total hydrogen data projected onto the contour plot, and a second set of dotted lines 50 projects this measurement on to the moisture measurement.
  • the overlap region yields a resultant curve for the moisture, curve 52.
  • This curve is narrower in its uncertainty because the gamma ray data, combined with the correlation function and the infrared data, has lover uncertainties than the infrared data combined vith the calibration constant.
  • External measurements may be included in the analysis, including, for example, destructive and non-electromagnetic measurements made after the electromagnetic data has been taken.
  • the HHV heating value may be measured after all of the nondestructive tests are complete by passing the sample to a combustion calorimeter.
  • the commercially available calorimeters measure the lover heating value (LHV) vhich equals the HHV minus the condensation energy contained in the exhaust gasses.
  • the condensation energy can be calculated from the volatile content, determined from the electromagnetic radiation measurements.
  • the LHV from the calorimeter, plus the calculated condensation energy then may be compared vith the HHV derived purely from the electromagnetic measurements, a valuable check of consistency.
  • the method by vhich the invention is practiced is comprised of the folloving steps:
  • Sample material vhose properties are to be determined are placed on the conveyor means,
  • a plurality of sensors 10 stimulate electromagnetic radiation from the sample material 14 and detect that radiation.
  • the radiation preferably includes a plurality of vavelength bands from widely separated regions of the electromagnetic spectrum so as to allov different types of measurements to be made.
  • Data from each sensor 20 is passed to a data processor 12, through a controller 22 or directly from the sensor 20.
  • the data is then analyzed by the data processor.
  • the analysis takes, a input, the data from the sensors 20, and calculates, as output, values for th desired material properties. Equations enabling this analysis may have been previously derived by solving a matrix vhose elements are the constituents of the material.
  • Information on the calculated material properties is then transmitted t the user by the communication means 26.
  • the method may also include the step of measuring electromagnetic radiation from calibration samples vhose properties are independently knovn.
  • the method may also include the step of receiving data from external measurement means for use vith the sensor data in the analysis.
  • An alternate embodiment of the invention is shovn in Figure 4.
  • This embodiment is adapted to the application of measuring the quality of baked goods prior to packaging.
  • all of the sensors 20 detect electromagnetic radiation essentially simultaneously from a single sample 14.
  • the sample material 14 remains in a fixed position in this embodiment, vhile the array of sensors 20 are moved into position so as to detect electromagnetic radiation from the sample 14, the sensors 20 being so positioned by means of a suitable conveyance (not shovn).
  • the material properties to be determined are the veight, color, and moisture content of the product, here assumed to be a cracker.
  • the sensors 20 vhich determine these parameters are an NMR system, an optical spectrometer, and an infrared detector.
  • the vavelength bands detected are shovn by the solid rectangles 36, 38, and 40 in Figure 2.
  • the NMR system is a an automatic pulsed vide-line NMR instrument vhich measures the amount of hydrogen in the sample 14 in fluid molecules (vater and oil) as the amplitude of the free-induction decay signal. This signal is emitted by the hydrogen nuclei in the sample in the radio frequency portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • the optical spectrometer detects visible light reflected from the sample 14 to evaluate its color.
  • the infrared detector measures various infrared transitions vhich are sensitive to vater and oil separately.
  • the desired material properties are related to the measured quantities of these sensors 20.
  • the moisture content is found from the NMR signal amplitude, corrected for the oil/vater ratio as determined by the infrared spectrometer.
  • the veight of the sample 14 is found by tvo methods: the earliest portion of the NMR spectrum includes contributions from the solid as veil as the liquid components in the cracker, and thus is a measure of the total hydrogen in the sample. After correction for the moisture and oil content, the remaining solid signal is an approximation of the dry basis of the sample.
  • the other method is by infrared heating of the sample.
  • the heat capacity of the sample 14 is measured by exposing the sample 14 to a knovn amount of infrared radiation and measuring the amount of infrared radiation subsequently produced by the sample 14. After correction for the specific heat capacities of the vater and other constituents, the heat capacity of the sample is a measure of its veight.
  • the processor 12 combines the NMR, infrared, and optical spectrometer data to obtain the veight, moisture, and color " parameters of the sample 14, and passes these results to the user through the communication means 26.

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L'invention décrit un instrument servant à mesurer les propriétés de matériaux (14). Cet instrument non destructif et exempt de contact avec les matériaux (14) détecte le rayonnement électromagnétique émanant de ceux-ci sur une plage étendue du spectre électromagnétique et combine ces données diverses, de façon à calculer les valeurs souhaitées des propriétés desdits matériaux. En particulier, l'instrument peut détecter lesdites propriétés en utilisant la résonance magnétique des particules, la spectroscopie de la lumière dans la plage ultraviolet-visible-infrarouge, ainsi qu'effectuer la détection des rayons X et des rayons gamma. Des détecteurs (20) détectent chaque bande de longueurs d'ondes de rayonnement électromagnétique et les données provenant desdits détecteurs (20) sont introduites dans un ordinateur central (12), de façon à analyser les propriétés des matériaux (14).
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